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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade

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